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100-Foot Asteroid to Buzz Earth Next Month
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| 2/5/16
| Mike Wall
Posted on 02/06/2016 2:42:17 AM PST by LibWhacker
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02/06/2016 2:53:48 AM PST
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SubMareener
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To: LibWhacker
If their distance varies from 9 million miles to 11000 miles, the 11,000 miles is only a tenth of a percent of that range. Not to be a panic monger, but 0.1% of the range given, when they don’t know where it will go is a real comfort.
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02/06/2016 2:53:51 AM PST
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: LibWhacker
Nearly every object in the solar system is covered with craters. Processes on the Earth have erased most of its craters over time. Here comes another one.
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02/06/2016 2:58:54 AM PST
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r_barton
(We the People of the United States...)
To: Smokin' Joe
Kind of amazing they haven’t been able to narrow its orbit down more precisely than that in two years’ of observation.
To: LibWhacker
It’s not as if we could stop it anyway. This is one reason we need an actual space program instead of piddling around in low earth orbit. Does anyone even know what astronauts do in space anymore? Apparently nothing news worthy.
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02/06/2016 3:03:32 AM PST
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Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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02/06/2016 3:10:52 AM PST
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SubMareener
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02/06/2016 3:19:53 AM PST
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Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: SubMareener
Lol, he didn’t take long.
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02/06/2016 3:28:15 AM PST
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Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: LibWhacker
What this gobbledegook means in fact is that NASA hasn’t a clue what the thing is going to do.
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02/06/2016 4:03:16 AM PST
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Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: LibWhacker
Hot Fudge Saturdae!
Love, Jerry
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posted on
02/06/2016 4:19:33 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act)
To: LibWhacker
Hope it lands on the White Hut
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To: LibWhacker
There is no danger that 2013 TX68, which was first spotted in October 2013, will collide with Earth on this pass, researchers said. However, there is an extremely slight chance--less than 1 in 250 million--of an impact on Sept. 28, 2017, and even lower odds during flybys in 2046 and 2097. I wonder how they can say that, when the range of possible trajectories is between 11,000 and 9 million miles from Earth. That is a pretty huge range--is that a confidence interval, or is that a standard error or deviation in measurement? Either way, that huge range does not tell me that the chance of it colliding with Earth is negligible.
Maybe it will hit a piece of space junk, which will deflect it enough to avoid entering the atmosphere.
I'm a biochemist, not an astrophysicist, so I have no idea how they make those calculations or the assumptions behind them.
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posted on
02/06/2016 5:35:49 AM PST
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exDemMom
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To: LibWhacker
They could use a tractor beam if the asteroid is a problem.
Dr. Evil: Our early attempts at a tractor beam went through several preparations. Preparations A through G were a complete failure. But now, ladies and gentlemen, we finally have a working tractor beam, which we shall call... Preparation H!!
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02/06/2016 6:02:13 AM PST
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USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: LibWhacker
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02/06/2016 6:04:27 AM PST
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huldah1776
( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
To: LibWhacker
It will only get as close as 11,000 miles, give or take a few million.
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02/06/2016 6:15:39 AM PST
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PAR35
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